Re: Co-existing of traceevent of trace-cmd and perf

[Zamir SUN <sztsian@gmail.com>]

On 9/29/20 11:18 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:16:33 +0800
> Zamir SUN <sztsian@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 9/29/20 9:44 PM, Zamir SUN wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm packaging trace-cmd 2.9 into Fedora.
>>>
>>> Back in trace-cmd 2.8, all the plugins are under
>>> $(libdir)/trace-cmd/plugins. While as of trace-cmd 2.9, I find the
>>> traceevent plugins are installed in $(libdir) by default. This brings up
>>> an interesting situation - the perf tool also contains a copy of the
>>> traceevent in the same directory. So this means trace-cmd and perf have
>>> file conflicts. In terms of packaging, this means users can only install
>>> one of them, not in parallel (at least for Fedora). So I'd like to see
>>> if there are existing proposals or suggestions for which one is expected
>>> to be used by other utilities? Or is there any official plan to move one
>>> of them to the other directory?
>>>
>>> I'm copying Tzvetomir and Jiri as I think you're the first people for
>>> getting the plugins in this directory for trace-cmd and perf respectively.
>>>    
>>
>> Sorry, I just saw an email from Steven mentioning there will be a stand
>> alone libtraceevent. However I did not find it in git.kernel.org. So I
>> probably should ask if the stand alone version of libtraceevent is ready
>> now?
> 
> No but this gives me incentive to make it so very soon!
> 

Thanks for the info. I'll workaround this in trace-cmd then before it is 
ready.

> -- Steve
> 

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Zamir SUN
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